In February 2011, the burn unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia held its annual reunion for burn trauma patients in conjunction with National Burn Prevention Month. Recovering from a…
Nearly everyone has heard the tagline, “There’s an app for that.” Well do you think there is an app for checking your vision? How about an app for diagnosing an illness? If you…
Each year, more people suffer serious injuries or are killed in boating accidents. In many cases, those terrible boat crashes are preventable. Nearly 11,000 vessels were involved in more than 5,000…
With Norfolk’s new light rail, The Tide, set to open on August 19, 2011, Hampton Roads Transit drivers are gearing up to operate the trains safely. Being in control of a piece of machinery…
A car fleeing Newport News police was involved in accidents near and on the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. According to the Virginian-Pilot, officers were conducting a traffic checkpoint…
Distracted driving often occurs without us even realizing it. We could be checking our cell phones or fiddling with the radio. Now, thanks to a $50 million study by the University of South Florida…
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the little guy, it did in Texas, where Gov. Rick Perry has signed into law a new “loser-pays” bill. The bill, passed in the name…
Social media is here to stay, and Facebook posts are becoming red meat in signficant injury and wrongful death cases — not only in Virginia (VA) but nationwide. What you say or post may be used to…
Newport News, Virginia (VA), law enforcement officers have taken a firmer approach to controlling unsafe actions by recreational boaters, cracking down on drunken boating incidents. Boating while…
Not necessarily. About a year ago, the speed limit on several interstates throughout Virginia jumped from 65 mph to 70 mph and now there are reports about an increased number of accidents in that…
There is no shortage of information available on crashes caused by drunken drivers. The same cannot be said of drivers who use drugs. Until now. A new study suggests drivers who die in crashes…
Breathing in diesel exhaust fumes has long been recognized as a health hazard in rail yards and train locomotives. Certainly, any Amtrak, CSX or Norfolk Southern conductor, engineer or carman knows…